"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
“If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.”
“The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.”

Source : "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.
“The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.”
“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, p.161, Faber & Faber
“Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.”
“The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.”
“I'm always gonna be Joe Namath, and I'm not running from that.”

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